{"id":494159,"date":"2023-06-01T13:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=494159"},"modified":"2023-06-01T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T11:59:32","slug":"google-drops-support-for-original-chromecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/494159-google-drops-support-for-original-chromecast.html","title":{"rendered":"Google drops support for original Chromecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has officially stopped supporting the first generation of its Chromecast, the company announced in a Chromecast support release<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This means that the original Chromecast will no longer receive security and software updates, and Google said it would no longer provide technical support for the device.<\/p>\n

“Support for Chromecast (1st gen) has ended, which means these devices no longer receive software or security updates, and Google does not provide technical support for them,” it said.<\/p>\n

“Users may notice a degradation in performance.”<\/p>\n

Google launched the original key-shaped streaming device in 2013, and up-to-date Gen 1 Chromecasts are running firmware version 1.36.159268, released in November 2022.<\/p>\n

The update included “bug fixes and improvements”. 9to5Google notes<\/a><\/strong> it was the first patch the streaming device had received in three years.<\/p>\n

The key-shaped streaming device connects to TVs and monitors via an HDMI connection on the “blade” of the key and receives power through a microUSB port on the “head” of the key.<\/p>\n

The first generation Chromecast launched for $35 (around R350 at the time) and featured 512MB of RAM and 2GB of storage.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Google launched the second generation Chromecast, ditching the flash disk-style design for a puck shape.<\/p>\n

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Google warned that owners of the first-generation Chromecast may notice degraded performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":494169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20619,86799,167,49055],"class_list":["post-494159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-chromecast","tag-gen-1-chromecast","tag-google","tag-security-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494237,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494159\/revisions\/494237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}